Award-winning author Doreen Baingana to give public reading

Author and editor Doreen Baingana will give a public reading at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17 in Quad 346 (the Little Theater), SJU. Baingana's collection of short stories, Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe (2005), won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs prize for short fiction as well as the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book in the African region. Additionally, she has won the Washington Independent Writers Award and is a two-time finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing. Her appearance is sponsored by CSB's Literary Arts Institute.